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Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody saga. When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization’s salvation, or to its doom.

The Asterion Dominion is at peace with its neighbors and itself. Its citizens enjoy great freedoms and all the luxuries their biosynthetic minds can imagine, design and create. But beneath the idyllic veneer, something is going wrong. People are going wrong, driven to commit inexplicable crimes without motive or purpose. And once imprisoned for those crimes, they simply vanish.

Psyche-wiped and dumped in an alley 5 years ago, awakened into a culture where ancestral memories stretch back for millennia, Nika Tescarav’s past is a blank canvas. But if whoever erased her did so in the hope of silencing her, they should have tried harder.

Someone must speak for the lost.

Someone must uncover how and why they became lost.

Someone must find the lost.

Nika is that someone.

Featured Sci-fi: Flight of the Old Wolf (Against the Endless Dark Book 1) by KJ Coble

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Featured Sci-fi: Flight of the Old Wolf (Against the Endless Dark Book 1) by KJ Coble

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A burnout captain. An obsolete starship. One more mission for both.

Tenacity is the last of the Fenris-class battlecruisers, the “Old Wolf” as her crew calls her. Captain Dath Raker—storied, scarred, and outrageous—gets called worse. But the command’s been his last, best chance to shine, even if it’s just showing the Republic of Sanctuary flag while ferrying a delegation to peace talks.

The Republic’s deadliest rival has no interest in peace. Deranged by centuries in thrall to obscene alien gods, the Golgothan Empire is ready to make their big move. And a meeting of the star-nations is a perfect way to get all their enemies in one place.

The Golgothans’ plan relies on surprise and the rapid collapse of resistance.

They’re about to find out that Tenacity is more than just a name.

Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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When John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably—and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.

Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity’s first contact with alien life—an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules—indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it—to prevent humanity’s greatest cataclysm.

Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn’t live to see it again.

Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

Available in ebook, print, and audiobook from Starstream Publications. Audiobook narration by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki. DRM-free ebook edition.

Featured Fantasy: Relics of Andromeda (Song of Ancients Book 1) by Jonathan Michael Erickson

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AN EPIC TALE SPANNING CIVILIZATIONS AND CENTURIES.

Anka believed the stories since childhood: the alien relics bring ruin and madness.

Ancient pieces of technology that have minds of their own, the relics interface with human psychology, granting the power to bend space and time—often inducing psychosis.

When the colonists of Andromeda first discovered the relics, long before Anka was born, humanity was plunged into chaos.

Now Anka carries a relic in her pack, tasked with securing the object before it does any harm. She sets out with her companions across the desert by foot, marching towards the distant city—even as the relic begins to whisper in her mind…

Featured Sci-fi: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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Featured Sci-fi: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves… Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.

Bradbury’s Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars … and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

Featured Fantasy: Society for Paranormals Complete Series by Vered Ehsani

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Featured Fantasy: Society for Paranormals Complete Series by Vered Ehsani

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It’s Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in a 12-book cozy paranormal mystery romp through Victorian Africa.

Armed with exquisite etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi, Kenya, desperate for a pot of tea. But she’ll need more than that if she’s to unravel a series of increasingly deadly mysteries without being eaten in the process.

She must endure all manner of inconveniences while surviving the machinations of friends, enemies and dashing gentlemen, not to mention the efforts of her safari guide to feed her to any lion willing to drag her away. Talking chimps, African gods, shape-shifting demons, zombie elephants, firefly vampires, steampunk automatons, and a possessed horse… What is a ghost-chasing widow to do?

This delightful, binge-worthy collection brings together all twelve books in the Society for Paranormals cozy mystery series in which a paranormal detective refuses to let danger, death, and unsolicited suitors inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Welcome to murder, mayhem, mythology, and the search for a perfect spot of tea.

If you love Agatha Christie, Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate, Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, or Pride & Prejudice; or if you enjoy historical mysteries, adore Gaslamp intrigue, or would love to experience adventure in colonial Kenya, then download Society for Paranormals: The Complete Series to start your supernatural safari today.

Included in the boxset are the following cases:

  • Miss Knight and the Night in Lagos
  • Miss Knight and the Pyramid’s Puzzle
  • Miss Knight and the Ghosts of Tsavo
  • Miss Knight and the Automaton’s Wife
  • Miss Knight and the Mantis’ Revenge
  • Miss Knight and the Fourth Mandate
  • Miss Knight and the Nandi’s Curse
  • Miss Knight and the Spider’s Web
  • Miss Knight and the Stones of Nairobi
  • Miss Knight and the Wedding Killer
  • Miss Knight and the Throne of Death
  • Miss Knight and the Poacher’s Catch